Oil and nation : a history of Bolivia's petroleum sector / Stephen C. Cote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cote, Stephen C., author.

Series:

Energy and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Bolivia--History--20th century.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Bolivia--History--20th century.

Bolivia--Politics and government--20th century.

Bolivia.

Bolivia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase infrastructure development in South America's poorest country. The book advances chronologically from Bolivia's earliest petroleum pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and environmental issues, and within development strategies by different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.

Contents:

Introduction

Discovery

Standard Oil and Eastern Bolivia

Oil and the Chaco War

Oil and nation

Oil and the revolutionary state

Fall and rise of the oil state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-943665-48-6

1-943665-49-4

OCLC:

961309386